Martinsburg independent. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1875-1900, 1887-05-21
From ihe Pitts5rrg Chronicle.

Bells will be remarked, The pictures
suggested are as Poe conceived ;
there is Poe's vigor and cumulative
force with much OF the weirdnes'
that cIaracterles his strongest
poems. like phantasmagoac lie
mans" precisely such q picture ~
Poe's imaginations would give rs.
IA ne deepest death of midnight,
While the lad and solemn swell
Still was floating, fatinly echoed
From The forests chapel bell,
Faintl, fal,efing, floating,
ore, The sable waves of ali.
THAI ere through tie midpigh5 rolling,
ChafeG anG billowy with The tolling,
in my chamber lay dreaming,
Aud ruv {. cam We G dteams foiesladoW
ed
u Q boal, 30 edoo,JeG TO cGte.
AS IL Isl lolg linse. ms ecno
Of he ,nidoi9h,'o myst'c chime,
Lisping though ;a9 sable billow
O, tl9 th;shef 50 Of Time,
Leaving o. lno s,asfy silulc
NJ. ID COS 2 TIC,
Jus quiYe.i g sigh departed
From mY couch, ID faar, | started
9G"lieC 10 ny ieeU,e terror,
Tor ny dreams phaatasael q a
Pointed in the fitfpl fire
n.ightrr, denti7h, fleming ;rce
o., tlc red heat b's .eGoest eeutre,
49,. ~ M. oc oels
5some 10 ii ana gioe the pnan,o",
- tatror awoke.
Aad my sium5eripg eyelide eG.ano
rs ss.uSgled 10 ,be iloo|
Soll - ..,st GtSaG rision aeealiao,
'rutnar .1y Gaze ,oWa,r, ohe sla2mi'3
naa H., - i.,en, %. God! sew t,
AID from It's flaming jaw il
Spao q cea selas,, seethl0S, 9iss'ng,
Clubbing, Surglng stream OF go-e
s,,aechles, struck with SONY euvN-o.
F,o4ea 10 "a floor l stood
nil my very brain seemed Kissing
With tnat Kissing, bubolinJ biooa,
nrill I fell my life stree'a oozilg
Ooziae from those lambert Hp5,
piil .ae demon seemed 10 IA ne me,
Tnea :. wondlods calm o'eroeme ne;
Ald ] fell bacs OIL my pillow
La 2ppctent coul eclipse.
Thus. IS in DEATHS SEEMING sn~'Vwo
IL tic icy pail Of fear,
lay stricken, cam. uo.ai Sc ana
aiGeous murmur 10 my eas;
Came muimur, like tue mnmrf
OF assa ssins i'll their sleep.
Mutterinc higher, higher, higher,
Il am demon OF The lire,
L ain archiend OF the fire,
And each blazing roofs thy pyre,
And Inv sweetest incense is
The blood and tears my victimc weep.
How l revel on The prairie,
How / roar amidst he pines,
How / laugh as from the village
DER the snow the red flame shines;
How hear the shrieks Of terror,
With a life in every breath.
How / scream with lambert lailjen
laughter
AS hurl each cracking rafter
Down the Iell abyss of lire.
Until higher, higher, higher,
Leap The high p tests of my altar,
In their merry dance of death.
Il am monarch OF The fire,
am royal King of Death,
World enciicling with the shadow
OF its doom upon nay breath,
W It'll che symbol of hereafter
Cleaning from my fatal face
/ command the eternal lire.
Higher, higher, higher, higher,
Leap my minis,ering demons,
Like ohantasmagoric lemans,
Hugging universal Nature
in theig hideous embfaco."
Then sombre silence Shut me
IN her solemn 3D.. AIDED sleep,
And | sltlnbered like an infant
N the cradle OF the deep.
7Tin the bellry from the roteso
Trem3lel with The martin stroke;
And the martias f-om the edge
o. their lichen-hidden ledge
Scimmered through the russell arches,
While the light, n torn files, marches,
Like a routed army struggling
Through the serried ranks oaks.
Through my open fretted easement
Filtered in tremulous note,
From the tall and shady linden,
Where the robin sweiled his throat;
Tiny wo0er, bFave-breasted robin,
Quantity calling for his mates,
From my slumber, Instrumentation,
With the memory of that.dire
Demon in my central tire
Like my eyes interior mirror,
Like the shadow of fate.
But the fiendish fire had smouldered
10 white and formless heap,
And no knot of OAK was blazing
AS it blazed upon my Sleep.
But on the red healfh's reddest centre,
Where that demons face had shown,
The shadowy tightening seemed TO lingeI
And to point with spectral finger